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| 7 | 
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-gcc" role="wrap">
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| 9 |   <?dbhtml filename="gcc.html"?>
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| 10 | 
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| 11 |   <title>GCC-&gcc-version;</title>
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| 12 | 
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| 13 |   <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc">
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| 14 |     <primary sortas="a-GCC">GCC</primary>
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| 15 |   </indexterm>
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| 16 | 
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| 17 |   <sect2 role="package">
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| 18 |     <title/>
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| 19 | 
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| 20 |     <para>The GCC package contains the GNU compiler collection, which includes
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| 21 |     the C and C++ compilers.</para>
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| 22 | 
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| 23 |   </sect2>
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| 24 | 
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| 25 |   <sect2 role="installation">
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| 26 |     <title>Installation of GCC</title>
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| 27 | 
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| 28 |     <para os="p1">The following patch contains a number of updates to the
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| 29 |     &gcc-version; branch by the GCC developers:</para>
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| 30 | 
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| 31 |     <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
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| 32 | 
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| 33 |     <para os="fix1">Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will
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| 34 |     suppress the execution of the <command>fixincludes</command> script:</para>
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| 35 | 
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| 36 | <screen os="fix2"><userinput>sed -i 's@\./fixinc\.sh@-c true@' gcc/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
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| 37 | 
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| 38 |     <para os="f">The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source
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| 39 |     directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
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| 40 | 
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| 41 | <screen os="g"><userinput>mkdir -v ../gcc-build
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| 42 | cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
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| 43 | 
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| 44 |     <para os="h">Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
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| 45 | 
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| 46 | <screen os="i"><userinput>SED=sed CC="gcc -isystem /usr/include" \
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| 47 | CXX="g++ -isystem /usr/include" \
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| 48 | LDFLAGS="-Wl,-rpath-link,/usr/lib:/lib" \
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| 49 |   ../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 50 |     --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-threads=posix \
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| 51 |     --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \
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| 52 |     --disable-multilib --disable-libstdcxx-pch \
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| 53 |     --with-system-zlib --enable-checking=release --enable-libstdcxx-time</userinput></screen>
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| 54 | 
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| 55 |     <variablelist os="i1">
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| 56 |       <title>The meaning of the new configure option:</title>
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| 57 | 
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| 58 |       <varlistentry>
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| 59 |         <term><parameter>SED=sed</parameter></term>
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| 60 |         <listitem>
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| 61 |           <para>This prevents a hard-coded path to
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| 62 |           <filename>/tools/bin/sed</filename> in the <command>fixincl</command>
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| 63 |           program.</para>
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| 64 |         </listitem>
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| 65 |       </varlistentry>
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| 66 | 
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| 67 |     </variablelist>
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| 68 | 
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| 69 |     <para os="j">Compile the package:</para>
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| 70 | 
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| 71 | <screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 72 | 
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| 73 |     <important os="l">
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| 74 |       <para>Due to GCC's critical role in a properly functioning system,
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| 75 |       the CLFS developers strongly recommend running the testsuite.</para>
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| 76 |     </important>
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| 77 | 
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| 78 |    <para os="s1">Increase the stack size prior to running the tests:</para>
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| 79 | 
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| 80 | <screen os="s2"><userinput remap="test">ulimit -s 32768</userinput></screen>
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| 81 | 
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| 82 |     <para os="m">Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para>
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| 83 | 
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| 84 | <screen os="n"><userinput remap="test">make -k check</userinput></screen>
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| 85 | 
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| 86 |     <para os="o">The <parameter>-k</parameter> flag is used to make the test suite
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| 87 |     run through to completion and not stop at the first failure. The GCC test
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| 88 |     suite is very comprehensive and is almost guaranteed to generate a few
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| 89 |     failures. To receive a summary of the test suite results, run:</para>
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| 90 | 
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| 91 | <screen os="p"><userinput remap="test">../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen>
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| 92 | 
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| 93 |     <para os="q">For only the summaries, pipe the output through
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| 94 |     <userinput>grep -A7 Summ</userinput>.</para>
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| 95 | 
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| 96 |     <para os="r">A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The
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| 97 |     GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not
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| 98 |     resolved them yet.</para>
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| 99 | 
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| 100 |     <para os="s">Install the package:</para>
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| 101 | 
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| 102 | <screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 103 | 
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| 104 |     <para os="u">Install the <filename class="headerfile">libiberty</filename> header
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| 105 |     file that is needed by some packages:</para>
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| 106 | 
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| 107 | <screen os="v"><userinput>cp -v ../gcc-&gcc-version;/include/libiberty.h /usr/include</userinput></screen>
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| 108 | 
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| 109 |     <para os="w">Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the
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| 110 |     <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory.
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| 111 |     To support those packages, create this symlink:</para>
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| 112 | 
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| 113 | <screen os="x"><userinput>ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen>
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| 114 | 
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| 115 |     <para os="y">Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C
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| 116 |     compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para>
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| 117 | 
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| 118 | <screen os="z"><userinput>ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
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| 119 | 
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| 120 |     <para os="aa">Finally, move a misplaced file:</para>
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| 121 | 
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| 122 | <screen os="ab"><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libstdc++*gdb.py /usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
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| 123 | 
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| 124 |   </sect2>
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| 125 | 
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| 126 |   <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content">
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| 127 |     <title>Contents of GCC</title>
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| 128 | 
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| 129 |     <segmentedlist>
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| 130 |       <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 131 |       <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 132 |       <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
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| 133 | 
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| 134 |       <seglistitem>
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| 135 |         <seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gcov</seg>
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| 136 |         <seg>libasan.[a,so], libatomic.[a,so], libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libgcov.a,
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| 137 |         libgomp.[a,so], libiberty.a, libitm.[a,so], liblto_plugin.so, libmudflap.[a,so], libmudflapth.[a,so],
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| 138 |         libquadmath.[a,so], libssp.[a,so], libssp_nonshared.a, libstdc++.[a,so], libsupc++.a,
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| 139 |         libtsan.[a,so]</seg>
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| 140 |         <seg>/usr/include/c++, /usr/lib/gcc, /usr/share/gcc-&gcc-version;</seg>
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| 141 |       </seglistitem>
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| 142 |     </segmentedlist>
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| 143 | 
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| 144 |     <variablelist>
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| 145 |       <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 146 |       <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 147 |       <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 148 | 
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| 149 |       <varlistentry id="cc">
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| 150 |         <term><command>cc</command></term>
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| 151 |         <listitem>
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| 152 |           <para>The C compiler</para>
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| 153 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc">
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| 154 |             <primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary>
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| 155 |           </indexterm>
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| 156 |         </listitem>
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| 157 |       </varlistentry>
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| 158 | 
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| 159 |       <varlistentry id="cpp">
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| 160 |         <term><command>cpp</command></term>
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| 161 |         <listitem>
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| 162 |           <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the
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| 163 |           #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para>
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| 164 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp">
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| 165 |             <primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary>
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| 166 |           </indexterm>
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| 167 |         </listitem>
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| 168 |       </varlistentry>
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| 169 | 
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| 170 |       <varlistentry id="c">
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| 171 |         <term><command>c++</command></term>
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| 172 |         <listitem>
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| 173 |           <para>The C++ compiler</para>
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| 174 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c">
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| 175 |             <primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary>
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| 176 |           </indexterm>
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| 177 |         </listitem>
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| 178 |       </varlistentry>
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| 179 | 
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| 180 |       <varlistentry id="g">
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| 181 |         <term><command>g++</command></term>
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| 182 |         <listitem>
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| 183 |           <para>The C++ compiler</para>
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| 184 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g">
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| 185 |             <primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary>
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| 186 |           </indexterm>
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| 187 |         </listitem>
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| 188 |       </varlistentry>
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| 189 | 
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| 190 |       <varlistentry id="gcc">
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| 191 |         <term><command>gcc</command></term>
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| 192 |         <listitem>
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| 193 |           <para>The C compiler</para>
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| 194 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcc">
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| 195 |             <primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary>
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| 196 |           </indexterm>
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| 197 |         </listitem>
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| 198 |       </varlistentry>
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| 199 | 
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| 200 |       <varlistentry id="gcov">
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| 201 |         <term><command>gcov</command></term>
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| 202 |         <listitem>
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| 203 |           <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to
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| 204 |           determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para>
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| 205 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov">
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| 206 |             <primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary>
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| 207 |           </indexterm>
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| 208 |         </listitem>
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| 209 |       </varlistentry>
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| 210 | 
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| 211 |       <varlistentry id="libasan">
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| 212 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libasan</filename></term>
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| 213 |         <listitem>
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| 214 |           <para>The Address Sanitizer runtime library</para>
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| 215 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libasan">
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| 216 |             <primary sortas="c-libasan">libasan</primary>
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| 217 |           </indexterm>
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| 218 |         </listitem>
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| 219 |       </varlistentry>
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| 220 | 
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| 221 |       <varlistentry id="libatomic">
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| 222 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libatomic</filename></term>
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| 223 |         <listitem>
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| 224 |           <para>A GCC support runtime library for atomic operations not
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| 225 |           supported by hardware</para>
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| 226 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libatomic">
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| 227 |             <primary sortas="c-libatomic*">libatomic*</primary>
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| 228 |           </indexterm>
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| 229 |         </listitem>
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| 230 |       </varlistentry>
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| 231 | 
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| 232 |       <varlistentry id="libgcc">
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| 233 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term>
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| 234 |         <listitem>
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| 235 |           <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para>
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| 236 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc">
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| 237 |             <primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary>
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| 238 |           </indexterm>
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| 239 |         </listitem>
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| 240 |       </varlistentry>
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| 241 | 
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| 242 |       <varlistentry id="libgcov">
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| 243 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcov</filename></term>
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| 244 |         <listitem>
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| 245 |           <para>Library that is linked into a program when
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| 246 |           <command>gcc</command> is instructed to enable profiling</para>
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| 247 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcov">
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| 248 |             <primary sortas="c-libgcov">libgcov</primary>
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| 249 |           </indexterm>
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| 250 |         </listitem>
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| 251 |       </varlistentry>
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| 252 | 
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| 253 |       <varlistentry id="libgomp">
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| 254 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgomp</filename></term>
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| 255 |         <listitem>
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| 256 |           <para>GNU implementation of the OpenMP API for multi-platform
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| 257 |           shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran</para>
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| 258 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgomp">
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| 259 |             <primary sortas="c-libgomp">libgomp</primary>
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| 260 |           </indexterm>
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| 261 |         </listitem>
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| 262 |       </varlistentry>
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| 263 | 
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| 264 |       <varlistentry id="libiberty">
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| 265 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libiberty</filename></term>
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| 266 |         <listitem>
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| 267 |           <para>Contains routines used by various GNU programs, including
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| 268 |           <command>getopt</command>, <command>obstack</command>,
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| 269 |           <command>strerror</command>, <command>strtol</command>, and
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| 270 |           <command>strtoul</command></para>
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| 271 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libiberty">
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| 272 |             <primary sortas="c-libiberty">libiberty</primary>
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| 273 |           </indexterm>
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| 274 |         </listitem>
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| 275 |       </varlistentry>
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| 276 | 
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| 277 |       <varlistentry id="libitm">
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| 278 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libitm</filename></term>
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| 279 |         <listitem>
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| 280 |           <para>The GNU Transactional Memory Library, which provides
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| 281 |           transaction support for accesses to a process's memory</para>
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| 282 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libitm">
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| 283 |             <primary sortas="c-libitm*">libitm*</primary>
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| 284 |           </indexterm>
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| 285 |         </listitem>
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| 286 |       </varlistentry>
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| 287 | 
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| 288 |       <varlistentry id="liblto_plugin">
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| 289 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">liblto_plugin</filename></term>
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| 290 |         <listitem>
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| 291 |           <para>Runtime library for GCC's link-time optimization plugin</para>
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| 292 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc liblto_plugin">
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| 293 |             <primary sortas="c-liblto_plugin">liblto_plugin</primary>
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| 294 |           </indexterm>
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| 295 |         </listitem>
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| 296 |       </varlistentry>
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| 297 | 
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| 298 |       <varlistentry id="libmudflap">
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| 299 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmudflap</filename></term>
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| 300 |         <listitem>
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| 301 |           <para>The libmudflap libraries are used by GCC for instrumenting
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| 302 |           pointer and array dereferencing operations.</para>
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| 303 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libmudflap">
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| 304 |             <primary sortas="c-libmudflap*">libmudflap*</primary>
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| 305 |           </indexterm>
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| 306 |         </listitem>
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| 307 |       </varlistentry>
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| 308 | 
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| 309 |       <varlistentry id="libquadmath">
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| 310 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libquadmath</filename></term>
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| 311 |         <listitem>
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| 312 |           <para>The GCC Quad-Precision Math Libarary API</para>
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| 313 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libquadmath">
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| 314 |             <primary sortas="c-libquadmath*">libquadmath*</primary>
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| 315 |           </indexterm>
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| 316 |         </listitem>
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| 317 |       </varlistentry>
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| 318 | 
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| 319 |       <varlistentry id="libssp">
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| 320 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libssp</filename></term>
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| 321 |         <listitem>
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| 322 |           <para>Contains routines supporting GCC's stack-smashing protection
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| 323 |           functionality</para>
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| 324 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libssp">
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| 325 |             <primary sortas="c-libssp*">libssp*</primary>
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| 326 |           </indexterm>
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| 327 |         </listitem>
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| 328 |       </varlistentry>
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| 329 | 
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| 330 |       <varlistentry id="libstdc">
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| 331 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term>
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| 332 |         <listitem>
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| 333 |           <para>The standard C++ library</para>
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| 334 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc">
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| 335 |             <primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary>
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| 336 |           </indexterm>
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| 337 |         </listitem>
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| 338 |       </varlistentry>
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| 339 | 
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| 340 |       <varlistentry id="libsupc">
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| 341 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term>
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| 342 |         <listitem>
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| 343 |           <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming
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| 344 |           language</para>
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| 345 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc">
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| 346 |             <primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary>
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| 347 |           </indexterm>
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| 348 |         </listitem>
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| 349 |       </varlistentry>
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| 350 | 
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| 351 |       <varlistentry id="libtsan">
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| 352 |         <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtsan</filename></term>
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| 353 |         <listitem>
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| 354 |           <para>The Thread Sanitizer runtime library</para>
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| 355 |           <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libtsan">
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| 356 |             <primary sortas="c-libtsan">libtsan</primary>
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| 357 |           </indexterm>
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| 358 |         </listitem>
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| 359 |       </varlistentry>
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| 363 |   </sect2>
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| 364 | 
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| 365 | </sect1>
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